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tonelok
Sep 29, 2001

Hanukkah came early this year.

Gembolah posted:

Not sure if you're serious, but it's a pretty stupid idea overall. This kind of consumer surplus squeezing is fairly annoying, and deprives most people of value they shouldn't have to pay extra for.
Microsoft has been doing this for quite a while.

They've gotten better with Windows 7, but you could still find yourself stuck with having to pay an additional cost to upgrade to a better version of Windows through Windows Anytime Upgrade.

It's been working for Microsoft for years, so I don't see them changing over to Apple's method of just selling everybody one version of the client. Because it's worked so well for Microsoft and because it's so easy these days for consumers to pay for the upgrade, I see Intel and eventually AMD doing this a lot more.

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